B CUSP 110B – Digital Thinking:

Animation, Video Games, and the Social Web
Monday/Wednesday 11:00am – 1:00pm
Room: UW2-105

Kelvin Sung (ksung@u.washington.edu)

Important Links:

· Discussion Board: comments, questions, observations.

· Submission drop box.

· Lightbot 2.0 (open in new window/frame)

· Clip Arts

Programming:

· Drop in Lab: UW2-140 (Contact: IT@uwb.edu
425-352-3456 for help with machines/printer in this lab)

· Visual Studio FAQ

· GamePad Mapping

· Library manual

PANIC Button

UWB Resources:

· Quantitative Skills Center (QSC)

· Writing Center

· UWB Library

· BCUSP110 Library Page

· Others (non-academic):

o Student Success Workshops

o Participate in CLA study and win prizes!

Here is what we did in Fall 2011:

Administration:

· Here is the Syllabus.

· Your current standing in this class at this point.

Schedule: (*) Note: the following lecture notes, assignments, and labs are based largely from Larry Snyder’s CSE120: Computer Science Principles class.

Date	Lecture notes	Exercise (in class, due by 5pm on the day assigned)	Assignment (due before next class)
Week 1:
9/28	Introduction	Pre-Course Survey Exercise 1: What I value	Homework 1: Lightbot 2.0.
Week 2: 10/3	Lightbot 2.0	Quiz 1 Discussion: your values	Homework 2: from bot to programs.
10/5	Practice Abstraction	Discussion: your Homework 2 Exercise 2: Download unzip, run, and send me a screenshot. Weekly survey (1)	Homework 3: Bot moonwalk
Week 3: 10/10	Video Game Programming Readings: Refer to Go-Post	Return: Homework 2 Links: EmptyProject and SoccerBallExample Exercise 3: Edit, zip, and submit source code. [Optional Extra Credit]	Homework 4: XNA And Soccer!
10/12	Privacy and Ethics in the digital age. Class Meet: LB1-222	Quiz 2: To be completed between Wednesday and Saturday. Weekly survey (2)	Privacy&Ethics Essay: Research Worksheet (10/17) Final Essay 10/24
Week 4: 10/17	Programming with Parameters Readings: Refer to Go-Post	Parameter Investigation	Homework 5: Programming With Parameters.
10/19	Programming with Parameters (more)	Exercise 4: From one soccer to pong layout Weekly survey (3) Quiz-3: on readings for the week!! To be completed between Wednesday and Saturday	Privacy&Ethics Essay: Final Essay
Week 5: 10/24	Color and Binary	Exercise 5: Variables and Soccer Motion	Homework 6: Color and binary numbers
10/26	Digitization	Classroom discussion on CD Rom Weekly survey (4) Quiz 4: Working with VS, C#, and binary numbers (open today at 1pm, close on Sat at 11:45pm)	Homework 7: Paddles + Conditionals
Week 6: 10/31	Mid-Term Review		Homework 8: Collision and Scores (this is due on _next_ Monday 11/7)!
11/2	Mid-term Exam Kinect Algebra Guest Lecture	Kinect Algebra Weekly survey (5) not taken (mid-term + SGID)
Week 7: 11/7	Condition and Repetition	Final Game Project: Find your partner!!	Homework 9: Repetition: Part 1: due on Wednesday Part 2: due on next Monday
11/9	Information Representation	Final Project assigned. Weekly survey (6) Quiz 5: Readings on conditionals + repetition	Final Project: Conceptual Design (On Paper)
Week 8: 11/14	Functions	Example: Bullseye as Pong	Homework 10: Functions
11/16	Instruction Execution	Exercise 6: Functions Weekly survey (7) Quiz 6: Readings on functions + conditionals + repetition	Final Project: Software Design (On Paper)
Week 9: 11/21	Complexity and Algorithm	Exercise 7: CD ROM + Image	Start Coding your final project
11/23	Artificial Intelligence	In-class: Work on Final Project Weekly survey (8) Thanksgiving: no quiz!	Final Project: Prototype implementation (ClassExample.cs)
Week 10: 11/28	Network
11/30	DNS	Exercise 8: Personal web-page for showing off!! Weekly survey (9) No more Quizzes!	Work on Final Project!
Week 11: 12/5	WWW Searches	Final Project!!	Final Project: Final implementation (ClassExample.cs + Resource files)
12/7	Final Review	Weekly survey (10)
Week 12: 12/12	Final Exam	Post-Couse Survey

Other Stuff:

· If you are bored … check this out: No! You cannot play these games in my classes.

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